If you are looking in SF or the bay area, you'll definitely find a job. Be sure to specify what you actually want to do. Be honest about your transition, and explain your desires. That way, you shouldn't have people trying to force you into the activities you're no longer interested in.

My company is hiring: http://www.ngmoco.com/careers/positions/engineering and on my team we've recently had other engineers transition back from more marketing-focused jobs into day-to-day coding.

Contact me if you want to chat.

Why should 2 ever have been protected as a patent in the first place?

Shouldn't the patents have been:
"Drug A" --> We invented this drug. Some uses may include 1,2,3.
"Drug B" --> We invented this drug. Some uses may include "With Drug A", 2, 3

No patent for use 4 that happens to use Drug A and Drug C
???

What the hell is a "use patent"? Why can you patent the use of an already patented invention?

You have your memories slightly jumbled. It was University of Michigan's UMSolar vs Nuon Solar Car Team and in the end a Japanese team (Tokai University) won by leagues. -- Team Tokai ran a great race, it was very impressive.

I don't usually get annoyed about the rape of the language, I'm more annoyed about the willingness of people to make themselves difficult to understand. Using words like irregardless grates, because I have to parse an extra syllable, then figure out they probably meant regardless and discard the whole meaning sense that I was halfway done appending to the sentence!

Grrr.

The union in question is striking within a declining business. How will the union protect their jobs when phonelines get phased out completely? Of course most people are switching to VOIP and Wireless. Wireless plans are comparatively even less of a ripoff than phones. That's saying something. VOIP beats 90% of the usecases and features of regular phonelines at a much lower maintenance cost. What do these union people think they will get? They have to sabotage, because if they don't people might just not care that their plain-old-telephony lines aren't working...

Blackberry? You mean the fruit I put in my yogurt? Why would you put pictures in your play-book, don't you need that for notes as to which plays to make? Plus, don't you think that torching your playbook would be a bad idea? How are you going to follow along?

How many moons does it take before something becomes a planet?

[Your mom]

"Mango when it get here will bring WP7 up the the same standard as teh..."

Ow, ow, my grammar parser crashed, I'm going to hide in a dark box with no internet for a while.

Mounting the DMG only opens the Disk Image, I guess in theory a DVD player app could automatically play the file inside the DMG when it appears in the finder, but you already need a pre-installed vector before you can have anything auto-run. Your attack surface also includes the Disk Image mounting software, but the spec for that could be verifiable so that nothing is executed, data is just presented at mount-time.

rm: /bin/laden: is a directory

FF4 is the first time I noticed sever performance improvement. Before that, I was using FF in-spite of it being slower, because of its plugins and the differing design decisions from Chrome. Since FF4 I can happily say that it isn't slowing me down anymore. I did exhibit memory leaks before 3.0 and in early 3.0 builds, but those more or less got solved for my usage. Sorry to hear that that doesn't work out for you!

Hahahaha! That's cute. Do you know if it's a Mozilla-only JS engine bug? I see the reverse on embedded browsers. V8 will segfault (not just leak memory!) with valid JS code that works fine in FF or WebKit (ios, Safari, or Chrome)

There are other reasons I don't personally like jQuery, but this anecdote adds to that body of mistrust.

I completely agree that FF4 uses CPU like never before. That said, in spite of using that much CPU, it feels responsive as hell. Way more responsive than previous versions. It's unfortunate that it does that at the expense of other processes. That said, the GP was bitching about memory leaks, as in runaway memory usage that doesn't shrink back down. I'm running over 60 tabs in 6 windows, my system uptime is 13 days, and I last relaunched FF4 when I last rebooted. I'm running Flashblock, Adblock Plus, Firebug, Greasemonkey, Better GMail2, Personas, and Personas rotator as my extensions. With all that, I see memory usage of 1.34gb which is down as of Tuesday. (I purged a window/project's worth of tabs after then)

To me, in spite of it appearing to idle at 40%cpu the snappiness is very impressive. I'm seeing no instance of memory leak. The process memory footprint appears to be directly correlated to the number of tabs I have open. Does your experience differ?

That's a good point. As we've been sandboxing things into separate processes (re: flash), it would be great if the allocator for XUL were patched so it could know which plugin is producing/using what memory. [I'm imagining "allocateWithZone" from objective-c] Then, you could have a clear panel which would indicate which subsystems are consuming more and more memory. This would allow us to point at various builds of greasemonkey (from your example) or firebug or other "fluffybunny" plugin. Further, we'd have extra data for FF crashlogs that would tell us which plugin was truly at fault in a crash, not just what thread did the crashing, but if a plugin-zone had consumed a gig of ram by itself.